Object

• hold: Cox bursts down the wing The second half was a scrappy affair in which neither side managed to gain much of a strangle hold.

• cat: Wobbly steering From PC Format 179, October 2005 The opening chords of Windows sound like a strangled cat.

• revolution: In Europe, Church and Royalty strangled the revolution.

• voice: Awful opening act, that's all I can remember, singer with a strangled cat voice.

Subject

• tape: Why I'm keen on red tape IT'S A constant cry from business interests: we're being strangled by red tape.

Modifying Another Word

• slowly: Being slowly strangled car its air many doctors belong.

• nearly: He led me further into the woods and nearly strangled me and when I came to he was crying.

• almost: They hadn't been almost strangled by him in the playground, had they?

• then: Said to be the spirit of the daughter of an early Norman lord, who raped her and then strangled her to death.

• not: He was not strangled or stabbed or anything of the kind.

Preposition: at

• birth: The academic enterprise would give the internal critic too much power; any creative infant would be strangled at birth.

• stake: Of the known figures, 67 % of those accused were executed - usually strangled at the stake before their bodies were burned.

Preposition: with

• scarf: She had been strangled with a scarf and her naked body sexually mutilated.

• rope: He stated that the other two soldiers had been strangled with a rope and a leather strap.

• wire: Taken by surprise he is ambushed and strangled with wire from the assailant's watch.

• cord: Before she has a chance to escape she is strangled with telephone cord, an identical crescent moon pendant left in her hand.

Preposition: by

• tape: Why I'm keen on red tape IT'S A constant cry from business interests: we're being strangled by red tape.